Sitemap - 2021 - John’s Newsletter
A Profound Thanks and What's Next
Our Geostrategist of the Year: Shinzo Abe
European citizens misunderstand the pandemic, and more, their natural rights
This year has seen the death of globalisation and the rise of great power politics
'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'...Our Political Risk Predictions for 2021-2022
The world wakes up: Political Risk After the Pandemic
The trouble with the Republicans
The Trouble with the Democrats
Don't look now but like a 1950's horror movie, the monster of inflation is alive
The world through Putin's eyes
To Dare Even More Boldly: Back to the Pythia's Lair; Can the Future Be Foretold?
All of Hillary's Men: The Democrats' Nixonian Dirty Tricks Begin Catching Up With Them
The Death of the Grown-Ups: The West's Centre-Right Governing Establishment Falls Apart
While you were sleeping: Political Risk Since Covid
To Dare Even More Boldly: Knowing the Nature of Your World; The Rolling Stones Regroup
Over Covid, we have disastrously allowed the elderly to steal life from the young
Iran is an unexploded political risk time bomb
Over the origins of the pandemic, Peter Daszak is China's 'Useful Idiot'
The Shakespearean Tragedy of Colin Powell: When Good Men Do Nothing
To Dare Even More Boldly: The Promised Land Fallacy; Khrushchev and the Limits of Brinkmanship
For the United States, the political risk is 'us'
A Tale of Two Countries: Britain and France Confront Our New Era
Tail risk Tuesday: Biden's agenda, China, Italian elections
3 things to think about today (October 5th, 2021)
China's peaking power means the years immediately ahead will be fraught with peril
Emmanuel Macron is wrong; NATO isn't brain dead. But the European ideas industry surely is.
The Anglosphere's strategic favour to Europe
Lotus-eating Europe well on the way to isolationist ruin over China
To Dare Even More Boldly; Washington and Hamilton as Supreme Chess Players
With Aukus, the Anglosphere rises as the EU falls
Over China, The Anglosphere Strikes Back
Transforming mediocrity into an art form: We live in the age of Merkel
To Dare Even More Boldly; The elusive madness of Charles Manson and Gaming Out Lunatics
What 9/11 meant to me. What 9/11 did to us.
To Avoid Overall Decline, the US has to fight off its symptoms: Education, Fauci, and Afghanistan
Some final, definitive political risk thoughts about Afghanistan
To Dare Even More Boldly: Meet the Pythia of Delphi, the world's first political risk analyst
The dangerous illusions of nation-building
Covid Brings Populist Danger to Europe
Germany's torpid election just got very interesting
China's Cover-Up of the Origins of Covid: The Definitive Timeline
The real lessons of Afghanistan
After Afghanistan: We must kill the liberal-neoconservative interventionist ideology forever
Lawrence of Arabia and the fall of Afghanistan
3 things to think about today (August 13th)
Dr. Fauci is emblematic of our failed elite
The Most Important Story in the World: China is obviously responsible for the Global Pandemic
3 things to think about today (August 9th)
Afghanistan must be the end of the line for America's noxious, futile efforts at nation-building
The seductive idea that led the American establishment to ruinously misjudge China's rise
The ten rules governing how our new world really works (Rule 5: Napoleon and Getting to Goldilocks)
3 things to think about today (July 27th)
3 things to think about today (July 26th)
"If this be treason, make the most of it!"
The ten rules governing how our new world really works (Rule 4: Game Changers)
The Ten Rules governing how our new world really works (Rule 3: Gaming Out Chess Players)
The Ten Rules of how our new world really works (Rule 2: Gaming Out Lunatics)
Revisiting To Dare More Boldly; The Ten Rules of Political Risk Analysis
3 things to think about today (July 8th)
3 things to think about today (July 5th)
Eisenhower wins the most important war game in history
3 Things to Think About Today (July 2nd)
An Ode to Sergio Leone: The French Presidential Election is not a two-person contest anymore
3 Things to think about today (June 28th)
An Appreciation of Arthur Lee and Forever Changes
The Failure of Biden's summit meetings actually exposes the emerging shape of our new world
Political Risk Analysis--Explaining Our Fascinating New World